Are Collapse Models Testable via Flavor Oscillations?

Autor(en)

Sandro Donadi, Angelo Bassi, Catalina Curceanu, Antonio Di Domenico, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Abstrakt

Collapse models predict the spontaneous collapse of the wave function, in order to avoid the emergence of macroscopic superpositions. In their mass-dependent formulation, they claim that the collapse of any system’s wave function depends on its mass. Neutral K, D, B mesons are oscillating systems that are given by Nature as superposition of two distinct mass eigenstates. Thus they are unique laboratory for testing collapse models that are sensitive to the mass. In this paper we derive—for the single mesons and bipartite entangled mesons—the effect of the mass-proportional CSL (Continuous Spontaneous Localization) collapse model on the dynamics on neutral mesons. We compare the theoretical prediction with experimental data from different accelerator facilities.

Organisation(en)

Teilchenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Università degli Studi di Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

Journal

Foundations of Physics

Band

43

Seiten

813-844

Anzahl der Seiten

32

ISSN

0015-9018

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-013-9720-x

Publikationsdatum

07-2013

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103036 Theoretische Physik, 103005 Atomphysik

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f16db16b-e3c7-4995-a1d1-4c7d882e2879